Inner Refuge, Inner Boundaries
Numbers 35:26-28 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Numbers 35 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The text states that the slayer must remain inside the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; leaving the boundary risks the avenger's return, and only after that death may he go back to his possession.
Neville's Inner Vision
I read Numbers 35:26-28 as a map of my inner life. The city of refuge is the state of consciousness where I withdraw from the impulse to identify with guilt or fear. The boundary keeps me safe, for I am the I AM—the governing awareness that creates my experience. If I step outside, the avenger of blood—my memory of punishment or past judgment—seems to take hold, yet I am not guilty in the ultimate sense, for the boundary arose from my own decision to remain in awareness until a shift occurs. The death of the high priest marks a turning point in my mind—a letting go of the old forms of judgment and the old idea of who I am. When that death happens, I may return to the land of possession—the realized state in which I own my life and all thoughts flow from the I AM. Thus accountability becomes inner alignment: I stay in the refuge, I acknowledge old habits without punishment, and I revise their meaning until the new self is established.
Practice This Now
Assume you are already safe inside the city of refuge within your mind; feel the boundary as calm, protective awareness. Then imagine the high priest's death as the letting go of the old self's judgments, and declare, I AM the ruler of my life—feel it real.
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